Dr. Jessika Boles is a Child Life Specialist, Team Leader, and Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University and will talk about her wide range of research and knowledge which has disproven long standing theories of the involvement that Pediatric Cancer patients should have in their own cancer battles.
Her research and knowledge has proven that these kids should be involved and should not be shielded from information regarding their individual situation and treatment.
Dr. Boles will also talk about some of her writings which focus on Legacy Living and Group Medical Play, and some of her innovations that she has put in at her hospital which include a Sensory- Soothing program for children with agitation or delirium and her hospital wide Bereavement Committee.